How to make a Food Delivery App like Zomato

As per a recent survey to find out the past and future growth of the food delivery business, the result came as no surprise. The food delivery business has been growing at a CAGR of 21% since 2016 and is expected to grow at 12% till 2025. There are various reasons behind such a huge growth such as Increase the number of smartphone and internet users, Millennials need for convenience, Craving for different food, etc.

So it is no surprise that budding entrepreneurs are searching for business ideas and most of them end up evaluating the idea of a food delivery business startup through apps like Zomato. Making an app like Zomato is not a simple process as you need to have answers to many points like the business model, target audience details, Revenue generation stream, Latest trends in food delivery apps, etc.

Steps to make an app like Zomato

1. Research the latest trends in food delivery app

One of the most important steps before the development is to find out the recent popular trends in food delivery apps or business model. In recent trends food delivery app owners are searching for different ways to integrate the food ordering with social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

The food delivery business is finding ways for a convenient and elegant user experience from the food ordering to final delivery. Zomato recently launched a streaming service on its app, so whenever a user orders the food and needs something to entertain self till the order is received they can stream short 20-30 minutes movies or series episodes.

2. Select a Suitable Business Model

There are basically three business models that you can choose from for a food delivery app.

• Food ordering on the app and self-pickup or delivery by the restaurant
• Food ordering and delivery by the app provider. Eg. Swiggy, Uber Eats
• Self-pickup as well as Food delivery by the app provider. Eg. Zomato

Based on your capability to manage resource and finances carefully choose the best suitable business model from the above.

3. Select a monetization model

Depending on the size of your business choose the desired one or multiple monetizations models from the list provided below

• Commission from restaurant in the percentage of the order value
• Promoting popular restaurants and charging premiums from them or showcase new restaurant partners.
• Delivery charge from the user
• Surge pricing for delivery rates during heavy orders.
• Advertising on the platform

You can choose the best combination of models suitable for your business.

4. Decide on specific features you would like in your platform

You need to decide some of the features that you would like in your user app, such as

• Quick signup and login
• Easy food ordering process for user
• Order acceptance or rejection by the restaurant
• Automatically assign a delivery person who is on the nearest location to the restaurant
• Let users track there order and show the estimated delivery time based on traffic and distance analysis

5. Hire a professional agency

Once you have finalized the basic needs for your app the best option to develop a food delivery app based on it is to hire a professional agency who has past experience in similar kind of app development and has a market reputation for quality work and also they should be well clear on How to Develop a food delivery app like Zomato.

The professional agency you hire should take up the complete responsibility of development till its launch and should also offer free support for a decided time duration until the app version is stable.

6. Promote and Improve

After the launch of the app the marketing and promotion activities should be carried out to the target customers and check out for the effectiveness of the applied strategy and improve upon it.

Based on the work carried out by the development company you can increase their contract period for the work required for improving and adding new features.

Jack Larson, Digital Marketing Executive at WebClues Infotech